Smartest man in the room?

“This is what happens at the end of wars,” President Barack Obama boasted when asked about swapping Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban terrorists. “That was true for George Washington, that was true for Abraham Lincoln, and that was true for FDR. That’s been true of every combat situation, that at some point, you make sure that you try to get your folks back. And that’s the right thing to do.” Is it really?

This statement demonstrates that the most powerful man in the world lacks even a grade school knowledge of American History; specifically as it relates to three of our most famous presidents. Then again, perhaps we shouldn’t expect too much from a man who was educated at an Ivy League school.

So what’s wrong with his statements, you wonder? In a word, everything!

First of all, George Washington did not become president until six years after the Revolutionary War ended in 1783. By 1789 there were no longer any prisoners for him to exchange. Second, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in mid April of 1865. And since the Civil War did not end until the following month, clearly he was still dead at that time. He therefore made no deals to exchange prisoners after the war. In fact, after the war ended, all prisoners on both sides were simply set free to go home. And third, FDR died of a stroke before the end of WWII. And like Lincoln, he stayed dead after the war ended, so he could not have done what the president says he did. You may recall that Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan, ending World War II. And he made no deal for prisoners; we simply went in and released them where necessary.

So none of the presidents that Obama noted were in office at the end of those wars, which makes it impossible for them to have arranged any sort of prisoner swap, let alone a 5 for 1 deal. It should also be pointed out that deserters and traitors were shot, hanged, or imprisoned during all three of the aforementioned wars.

What is even more amazing than the starling ignorance of the president is that he has managed to surround himself with a staff that is just as poorly educated, including members of the fawning mainstream media, who failed to call him out on his ridiculous justification.